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Join the Crowd!

Dear Fringe Friends Would you like to join us for Julius Caesar 15, 15, 17 October? The citizens are on the lookout for trouble – anything can happen! We are looking for people to act as ‘Citizens’ during the crowd…

Frantic Assembly Workshops – July 4th 2026

The Fringe’s contribution to Alton’s 2026 Arts Festival will be an acting workshop run by the exciting London-based company Frantic Assembly. This is open to anyone over 18, but places are strictly limited, so early booking is strongly advised. Tickets…

Plans for 2026

Plans for 2026 At the Things I Know to be True washup meeting on 2nd December it was decided to go ahead with a production of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar next Autumn, under the direction of Steve Gerlach. One possibility…

Play Readings

This week Steve led a reading of Beaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore – a fascinating and beautifully constructed account of the life of Alan Turing. Next week we meet again for a reading of Dylan Thomas’ classic radio play,…

Upcoming play readings

Tuesday Dec 5th – Hugh Whitemore Breaking the Code – Steve leading – re. Alan Turing Tuesday Dec 12th – Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood – James leading Venues to be announced

Planning our next production

We have now completed the sequence of productions which were all originally conceived either during or shortly before the years of lockdown. Zigzag, Top Girls, The Plague, and now The Cherry Orchard, have all, in their delightfully contrasting ways, been…

Cherry Orchard rehearsals going well

Four complete runs before we open on the 26th, two of them full dress rehearsals. Plus the technical rehearsal when we try out the sound and lighting and polish all the scene changes etc. With everyone of the book for…

Emerging from the pandemic years in good heart

We have emerged from the pandemic years with two successful live productions under our belt, first ZigZag – our own Simon Applegarth’s celebration of the life of Gilbert White of Selborne. Taking the form of a voice drama, he wrote…

Goodbye ’22 – Hello ’23

So, 2022 is drawing to a close. It has seen two stage productions by the Fringe, one successful bring-your-own-item evening, and two play-reading evenings – Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and A Burial at Thebes – Seamus Heaney’s verse translation of Sophocles’…